It’s weird how back in 2009-2015, movies, music, TV shows, etc had a very positive, upbeat vibe for the future. Yet 2016-2023 media has a very negative, cynical, "the future sucks" vibe. Why did things change? What will happen next?

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 5 posts:

• "This is one video I sure wonder happened afterwords😂😂😂" by u/Isaiahspokony
• "Being with someone who hates you" by u/hurricanerene
• "james droz snap $5 cash app😂" by u/whodeysontiktok
• "Happy Cakeday, r/whathappensnext! Today you're 8" by u/AutoModerator
• "What happens if a relative dies on your birthday" by u/Overall-Candy-6203

Literally what happens

What happens next?

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 6 posts:

• "What hurts the most on him?" by u/Impressive_Ad9586
• "Gravity plays its role..." by u/thetechmug
• "What happens next??" by u/thetechmug
• "We speak to comedian Steve Cantwelll about his experience with the drug Salvia where he was living in the body of another man for 8 years."
• "I fell off my hoverboard in the sewer with my phone on pocket" by u/NaptyT1A9TY
• "Happy Cakeday, r/whathappensnext! Today you're 7" by u/AutoModerator

Guess

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 3 posts:

• "Just cried about my ex listening to ripped pants" by u/in-Asahi
• "I hope that guy didn't get hit" by u/vanillacatz
• "I just...what happens next? Such a wild ride." by u/TaySureGn

I cant handle this anymore if you know me I'm sorry and I couldn't do it anymore wish you the best

I hope everything is going well with you I just want you to be OK sorry reached out to in this unorthodox way but I don't then I'm not OK I might just end it all today

Toast always lands butter side down. Cats always land on their feet. What happens if you butter the back of a cat?

First time I realized I didn't like my sister-n-law was about 2 years ago... Moving back home with my family about 4 months ago was not an ideal situation but we had no where to go. We being my boyfriend my son an I. My parent's live in a very decent size house. So... anyways... my brother his wife and their kid moved in like almost a year an a half ago. We are up to 8. Back to 2 years ago... I got fed up when we were all living together the first time. Same house. I had asked for more help... nothing.... asked my parents to talk to her about helping me cause I was pretty much the house bitch... nothing! Mind you my nephew was already 8 months at this time. No one would help so I opened my mouth an proceeded to go after her. I was stopped. They moved out. Let it go about a week later. Fast forward two years.
Had our own place. Loving life but life is expensive. Lost our place cause we couldn't afford the rent anymore. Now we are here.... Went to jail a couple months ago cause the bitch couldn't handle a fight between my brother an I. She is still lazy as hell around the house. Watches her phone more than her 3 year old... can't stand her anymore!!! Sad part is... she used to be a really good friend to me.... My brother is no help... an I feel like my parents think that if they say something it will ruin his "perfect marriage". Help please! !!!!!!

Please, write WHN.

constraint : characters names are 3 letters long

As Joe was chilling out in the sofa, daydreaming in the warmth of a sunbeam through the window, his fine sense of smell alerted him that something was definitely wrong in the cosmos. Sneaking its way through the very fabric of time and space, some coarse and tremendous evil was on the verge to unbind the weaving of life itself. Faintly sensing the perils at stake, Joe managed to let himself slip out of the sofa, and to somehow gather his thoughts to start further investigation.

Around him, the living room was - as usual - in an uncanny state of quietness. Some of his numerous folks were sleeping on the carpeted ground - which has seen better days - piled in indistinguishable stacks of flesh and bones, enjoying the common corporal heat. Grossed but determined, Joe proceed to sniff some of the reachable arses to check for evidences. Doing so, he inadvertently stepped on a member of some sort stepping out of the mess. He was not prepared for the Hell that ensued.

Awakened both by the clumsy disruptor and the stench growing fierce, the grunting hydre shivered on its base and slowly began to scatter. Amy came out first, she was the keenest of them all, shortly followed by Max whom ambition and willing to lead dictated every move. Then appeared Jim, Liz and Jen, those three were the merrier and eager to take part even in the neglectable activities. Bob, whose generous shapes gave presence but also impotence was the last.

Soon they wonder why their rest was troubled.

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